Melissa Kennedy | English Head of Department
Edmund Rice College Wollongong

Melissa is the Head of English at Edmund Rice College in Wollongong, NSW. She is passionate about leading others to develop dynamic and engaged teaching teams, supported by effective management and administration processes. She is a sessional lecturer at University of Canberra in their online Master of Educational Leadership. She is enthusiastic about sustainable teaching practices, sharing her ideas and strategies in her book The Sustainable Teacher (Amba Press, 2023). Melissa has presented at state, national and international conferences on topics as diverse as ‘How is Poetry like Coding?’, 'Boys and Reading - An Image Problem' and ‘Sustainable English Teaching’. Her research includes a Churchill Fellowship, NSW Premier’s English Scholarship, and a Boise State Writing Project Fellowship.